Medicine of the Mind

                I haven't dove  today. It's a form of meditation I look forward to when I awake. My instructor once said to me he doesn't need to meditate or do yoga, diving  is his mental medicine. When I first heard this I had my doubts. How can you replace the intense clarity that you embrace from bringing your mind to an open space? I still strongly recommend for people to put time aside each day to enter their happy place. However, now I see that diving can provide the euphoric restoration needed to enter a state of peaceful mediation. A big part of meditating comes from focusing on your breathe. When you are under water, breathing from a regulator connected to your air source, the only means of surviving, each breath is on the fore-front of your mind. You breathe in, your lungs expand as they fill with air, your body starts to rise and you near the surface. During the exhale you sink deeper into the depths of the ocean and your mind is miraculously cleared. When I'm diving in caves, fitting through small spaces, nearing the invasive specie I'm about to spear or being followed by guests watching my every movement, buoyancy is one of the most significant signs of professionalism or pure skill; breathe control is the key to successful movement under the sea. This constant attention to ones breathing, in an altered environment where gravity doesn't feel as though it exists, surrounded by life that seems almost alien, is one of the most powerful forms of mediation I've experienced. 

Rhythmic Expression, Poetic Possession

People, places, new sights and faces.
Travel to new gravel let your thoughts unravel. 
Wander with your body and mind at the same time.

As your learn how to live you learn you must give.
Give love, give trust, give hope for tomorrow.
Hope for happy people to coexist without use of a fist.

No needed force to fish, to feed people as we wish.
No sense to drain the supplies, our means to survive.
No abuse of the land, no creatures we have the right to ban.

In time more will understand and offer a helping hand.
The change seems like a volcano were hiking about to erupt.
The difference we make will not be abrupt. 

We can't reach our goal fast but each day is better than the last.
We can't fix our brother, or mother, or any other.
But when your inner light shines bright people tend towards what's right.